Brigham, Cockermouth, Linefoot, Marron & Maryport RJD 95

Camerton railway station was situated next to the River Derwent on the

Cockermouth and Workington Railway The Cockermouth & Workington Railway was an English railway company (established by Act of Parliament in 1845) which built and operated a railway between the Cumberland towns of Workington and Cockermouth. The railway opened for service in 1847 ...

. It served the village of Camerton,

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(now

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), England.

History

The station opened on 28 April 1847. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 3 March 1952, closing completely when the line closed on 18 April 1966. In later years the by then DMU-operated 09:52 westbound from Carlisle (10:20 from Penrith) made a regular unadvertised Fridays Only call at the station, though there was no balancing call.

Industry

Camerton Colliery and Camerton Fireclay mine and associated brickworks were served by sidings which curved northwards off the through lines a short distance east of the station. Coal workings appear to have petered out in the 1930s, but the brickworks was a successful concern, with firebricks being a key requirement of Workington's furnaces. From 1939 the Admiralty established

RNAD Broughton Moor RNAD Broughton Moor is a decommissioned Royal Naval Armaments Depot located between Great Broughton and Broughton Moor in the County of Cumbria, England. History The depot was opened in 1939 on the site of Buckhill Colliery (opened 1873, close ...

on the CWJR's line north east of Camerton. A lesser-known ancillary of this was using the fireclay workings at Camerton as an ammunition store. This appears to have petered out in the 1950s, though Broughton Moor arms depot lasted until 1992.

Afterlife

By 2015 the station site was surrounded by nature.

References

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External links

Map of the line with photos, via ''RAILSCOT''The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864, via ''National Library of Scotland''The station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via ''National Library of Scotland''The station, via ''Rail Map Online''The railways of Cumbria, via ''Cumbrian Railways Association''Photos of Cumbrian railways, via ''Cumbrian Railways Association''The railways of Cumbria, via ''Railways_of_Cumbria''Cumbrian Industrial History, via ''Cumbria Industrial History Society''The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via ''railwaycodes.org.uk''A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via ''cumbriafilmarchive''West Cumberland Railtour 5 September 1954, via ''sixbellsjunction''
{{Closed stations Cumbria Disused railway stations in Cumbria Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 1847 establishments in England